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Harry Mount's Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus (Hardback)
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Harry Mount's Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus (Hardback)

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Hardback 288 Pages / Published: 16/07/2015
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Synopsis
Architecture, art, sculpture, economics, mathematics, science, metaphysics, comedy, tragedy, drama and epic poetry were all devised and perfected by the Greeks. Of the four classical orders of architecture, three were invented by the Greeks and the fourth, the only one the Romans could come up with, was a combination of two of the former.The powerful ghost of ancient Greece still lingers on in the popular mind as the first great civilization and one of the most influential in the creation of modern thought. It is the starting block of Western European civilization. In his new Odyssey, eminent writer Harry Mount tells the story of ancient Greece while on the trail of its greatest son, Odysseus. In the charming, anecdotal style of his bestselling Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, Harry visits Troy, still looming over the plain where Achilles dragged Hector's body through the dust, and attempts to swim the Hellespont, in emulation of Lord Byron and the doomed Greek lover, Leander. Whether in Odysseus's kingdom on Ithaca, Homer's birthplace of Chios or the Minotaur's lair on Crete, Mount brings the Odyssey - and ancient Greece - back to life.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781472904676
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 563 g
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 25 mm

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The book is packed with such goodies ... As he picks his way among the ruins, brooding on the past - his own, and that of Greece - the author remains essentially English ... Equally, at times, Harry Mount has an air of being the living embodiment of the study of classics itself: noble, solitary, uneasily beleaguered, and sporting a slightly silly hat * Spectator *
Mount is honey-tongued, and this journey is ... fantastically entertaining * The Times *
An exploration of the diverse ways in which ancient Greek culture still runs in our veins, influences our thinking and governs our world view. -- Michael C. Scott * Times Literary Supplement *
[An] enjoyable and informative book ... fact and fiction can, as in the Bible, merge to create a heady mixture, which inspires and instructs. Cruise this book, and find the flavour of it * The Oldie *
One of the most compelling writers of his generation. -- A.N.Wilson * Evening Standard - Books of the Year 2015 *
A minor masterpiece of self-deprecation -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *

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